Phil Bayly By Stacey Morris/EXPLORE Capital District residents have been waking up to Phil Bayly’s smooth, even delivery of breaking headlines for decades. He began reporting for WNYT nearly 30 years ago, and is best known for hosting channel 13’s Today as well as the network’s talk show Early Today. What viewers may not know […]
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Falling in Love By Kathy Ceceri/EXPLORE For some people, a romantic getaway is a time to avoid anything more strenuous than lying on a beach. But for us, the perfect trip alone usually revolves around exercise and adventure in a setting of breathtaking beauty. For that, Niagara Falls is the ideal vacation spot — and […]
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Poutine Spirit By John Adamian/EXPLORE For those living in the Northeast or New England, the notable features often used to market Quebec as a tourist destination can seem all too familiar. Maple syrup: We’ve got that. Glorious fall colors: Check. Frigid winter temperatures: Yup. Seventeenth-century settler history: We can compete on that front, too. And […]
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Wait a Minute! By John Adamian Brevity is good. Just about every art form has some format that showcases the values and challenges of concision and compression, the virtues of going small or short. For every heroic epic, every extended symphony, every tome-like novel or every giant canvas, there’s the haiku, the three-minute pop song, […]
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Rogers Rock Tom Rosecrans has climbed all over the world, but he’s most at home on Rogers Rock overlooking Lake George. Have you heard of the legend of Rogers Rock? We’re not talking about Major Robert Rogers, the leader of Rogers’ Rangers in the French and Indian War. We’re talking about Tom Rosecrans, the rock […]
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The Artist’s Curse By Brianna Snyder/EXPLORE For many of us, art often confounds. Confrontational, abstract art can be offputting in undefinable ways. Sprawling, structural art can be alienating or confusing, while art film can be disorienting. Scholars and the enlightened few experience various artworks organically — they respond to them without needing context or explanation. […]
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Turn of the Cards By Michael Hamad/EXPLORE Last November, news of the death of Michael Dunford, guitarist/composer for the seminal British progressive folk-rock group Renaissance, sent shock waves through the prog-rock community on both sides of the Atlantic. But perhaps nobody in the music business felt the ripples as strongly as singer Annie Haslam, Dunford’s […]
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